Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
09 Dec 1974 ● English ● 1 hr 52 mins
A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
Did you know? The film's opening sequence was designed as an homage to The Wizard of Oz (1939). Read More
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Direction
Director
Film Type:
Feature
Language:
English
Colour Info:
Color
Frame Rate:
24 fps
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1 (Flat)
Stereoscopy:
No
Trivia:
Hot off her success with The Exorcist (1973), the studio granted Ellen Burstyn total creative control over this project.
The film's opening sequence was designed as an homage to The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Diane Ladd's daughter Laura Dern appears in the final diner scene, she is the little blonde girl with glasses sitting at the end of the counter eating an ice cream cone. As Dern would recall years later, it was after the nineteenth take, and exactly that many cones consumed, that Director Martin Scorsese informed Ladd that if her daughter could do that without throwing up, she had to be an actress.
Ellen Burstyn said she was not prepared for how frightening Harvey Keitel became in the scene where Ben threatens his wife and Alice. "I had a meltdown after shooting and cried for an hour", she said. Martin Scorsese, even as well as he knew Keitel, said the actor terrified him from the moment he began his very intense and rather demonic preparations for the scene.
The film's opening sequence was designed as an homage to The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Diane Ladd's daughter Laura Dern appears in the final diner scene, she is the little blonde girl with glasses sitting at the end of the counter eating an ice cream cone. As Dern would recall years later, it was after the nineteenth take, and exactly that many cones consumed, that Director Martin Scorsese informed Ladd that if her daughter could do that without throwing up, she had to be an actress.
Ellen Burstyn said she was not prepared for how frightening Harvey Keitel became in the scene where Ben threatens his wife and Alice. "I had a meltdown after shooting and cried for an hour", she said. Martin Scorsese, even as well as he knew Keitel, said the actor terrified him from the moment he began his very intense and rather demonic preparations for the scene.
